From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:53:09 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Update release notes in preparation for 1.36 release. X-Git-Tag: E2FSPROGS-1_36~69 X-Git-Url: https://git.whamcloud.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b0dc0ac01dc146d5d3e47b4ea500eec6e296ef7;p=tools%2Fe2fsprogs.git Update release notes in preparation for 1.36 release. --- diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index c405d75..1bc783a 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,5 +1,80 @@ -e2fsprogs 1.36-WIP (September 19, 2004) -======================================= +de2fsprogs 1.36-WIP (January 9, 2005) +==================================== + +All of the patches that were applied to Fedore Core 3's +e2fsprogs-1.35-11.2 have been integrated, although sometimes with a +lot of bug fixes first. Users of Fedora Core 3 are strongly +encouraged to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.36 as soon as possible. + +Add support for filesystem with the online resizing via resize inode +feature. Fixed numerous bugs from the Fedora patches. The Fedora +patches also didn't bother to do any consistency checking on the +resize inode, or add any tests to the regression test suite. The "-R +resize=4g" option to mke2fs was a no-op in the Fedora patches, despite +being listed in mke2fs's usage message. All of these shortcomings +have been corrected. + +E2fsck can also also fix filesystems trashed by Fedora's resize2fs +program. In order to do this, the user must run the commands: + + debugfs -w /dev/hdXXX -R "features ^resize_inode + e2fsck -f /dev/hdXXX + +Optionally, the ext2prepare command can be used to re-enable online +resizing after the filesystem has been fixed. + +The fsck program will now accept an optional filedescriptor argument +to the -C option. (The Fedora version of this patch would sometimes +cause fsck to ignore a parameter on fsck's command line in some rare +cases, sigh.) + +Badblocks will now correctly display block numbers greater than +999,999,999 in its progress display. + +The tune2fs program will not allow the user from setting a ridiculous +number of reserved blocks which would cause e2fsck to assume the +superblock was corrupt. E2fsck's standards for what is a ridiculous +number of reserved block has also been relaxed to 50% of the blocks in +the filesystem. + +The blkid library will return vfat in preference to msdos, and ext3 in +preference to ext2 (if the journalling flag is set) so that mount will +do the right thing. (Addresses Debian bug #287455) + +Mke2fs will now use the -E option for extended options; the old -R +(raid options) option is still accepted for backwards compatibility. +Fix a double-free problem in resize2fs. (Red Hat Bugzilla #132707) + +Mke2fs will now accept a size in megabytes, gigabytes, and other units +(via "32m" or "4g" on the command line) if the user finds this more +convenient than specifying a block count. + +Fix an obscure, hard-to find bug in "e2fsck -S" caused by an inode +cache conherency problem. + +Debugfs now supports a new command, set_inode_field, which allows a +user to manually set a specific inode field more conveniently, as well +as set entries in the indirect block map. + +Debugfs's set_super_value command has been enhanced so that the user +can set most superblock fields, including the date/time fields and +some of the more newsly added superblock fields. + +E2fsprogs programs now accept an offset to be passed to the file +specifiers, via the syntax: "/tmp/test.img?offset=1024". + +E2fsprogs programs will now accept blocksizes up to 65536; kernel +support on the x86 doesn't exist for now, but it can be useful on +other architectures with page sizes greater than 4k. + +Fix bug in debugfs where kill_file would lead to errors when deleting +devices and symlinks. (Sourceforge Bugs #954741 and #957244) + +Fix bug in the blkid library when detecting the ocfs1 filesystem + +Remove obsolete EVMS 1.x and a.out DLL support. + +E2fsck will attempt to recover from a journal containing illegal blocks. Fixed two potential ordering constraint problems in e2fsck which might cause the filesystem to be corrupted if e2fsck is interrupted during a @@ -65,10 +140,12 @@ Change the getsize functions to use the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl on Linux 2.6. Add various portability fixes for lame new versions of glibc, Darwin and GNU/KFreeBSD, as well as removing XSI:ism's. (Addresses Debian -Bugs #239934, #264630, #269044, #255589) +Bugs #239934, #264630, #269044, #255589, #289133) + +Add support for Windows 9x/NT under Cygwin. Updated and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs #236383, - #241940, #238741, #242995, #256669, #268148, #256760) + #241940, #238741, #242995, #256669, #268148, #256760, #273679) Updated and fixed translations. (Addresses Debian bugs #244105, #262836) @@ -83,7 +160,7 @@ particular, fixed the Debian initrd scripts. (#241183, #248050, Programmer's notes: ------------------- -Fixed various compiler warnings. +Fixed various gcc -Wall warnings. The uuid library now has new functions uuid_unparse_upper() and uuid_unparse_lower() which forces the case of the hex digits to be @@ -99,6 +176,16 @@ Updated config.guess and config.sub with newer versions from the FSF. Removed out of date .cvsignore files from the source distribution. +The ext2fs_unlink() function will return an error if both the name and +inode number are unspecified, to avoid doing something surprising +(such as unconditionally deleting the first directory entry). +Directory entries are now deleted by coalescing them with the previous +directory entry if possible, to avoid directory fragmentation. This +is not an issue with the e2fsprogs suite, but may be a problem for +some of the users of libext2fs, such as e2tools. + +Add support for version numbers of the form "1.36-rc1". + Fix build of mke2fs.static. The test_io mechanism can now abort after n reads or writes to a @@ -111,6 +198,19 @@ UUID_DEFINE() in the uuid library now creates a static variable, with __attribute__ ((unused)) if we are using GCC, so that UUID_DEFINE can be used in header files. +Add support for the install-strip and install-shlibs-strip targets, as +suggested by the GNU coding guielines. "make install" no longer +strips the binaries which are installed. + +Use Linux-kernel-style makefile output so it is easier to see compiler +warnings. + +Update gettext files to version 0.14.1. + +Update to use autoconf 2.5x. + +Improved support for compiling e2fsprogs under dietlibc. + E2fsprogs 1.35 (February 28, 2004) ==================================